JENNIFER JASON LEIGH previously was directed by Noah Baumbach in Margot at the
Wedding, for which she was an Independent Spirit Award nominee and was cited as Best
Supporting Actress by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

With Alan Cumming, Ms. Leigh wrote, directed, and starred in The Anniversary Party,
the ensemble cast of which also featured Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline, and Gwyneth
Paltrow, among many others. Mr. Cumming and Ms. Leigh received Independent Spirit
Award nominations for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.

As an actor, she first came to prominence in Sam O'Steen's telefilm The Best Little Girl
in the World, starring in the title role opposite Charles Durning and Eva Marie Saint. Her
feature film breakout role was in Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High,
alongside Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, and Judge Reinhold.

In 1990, Ms. Leigh was named Best Supporting Actress by the New York Film Critics
Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics for her performances in Uli Edel's Last Exit
to Brooklyn and George Armitage's Miami Blues.

She starred in two films for director Robert Altman, Short Cuts and Kansas City. She
reteamed with Mr. Altman when he produced Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle,
directed by Alan Rudolph. For her portrayal of the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, Ms.
Leigh was named Best Actress by the National Society of Film Critics and the Chicago
Film Critics Association, and received Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award
nominations.

Her many other feature credits include Richard Brooks' Wrong is Right; Christopher
Guest's The Big Picture; Lili Fini Zanuck's Rush; Barbet Schroeder's Single White
Female; Joel & Ethan Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy; Taylor Hackford's Dolores
Claiborne; Anjelica Huston's Bastard Out of Carolina; Agnieszka Holland's Washington
Square; David Cronenberg's eXistenZ; Tamra Davis' Skipped Parts, which she coproduced;
Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition; Jane Campion's In the Cut; Todd Solondz'
Palindromes; and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York. She was named Best
Actress at the Tokyo International Film Festival for her performance in the Dogme film
The King is Alive.

Ms. Leigh's Broadway stage appearances include Cabaret, opposite Alan Cumming and
directed by Sam Mendes, and David Auburn's Proof, directed by Daniel Sullivan. In
2005, she starred off-Broadway in the American premiere of Mike Leigh's Abigail's
Party, staged by Scott Elliott for The New Group; her performance earned her Drama
Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations for Best Actress. She also recently starred in
the radio play, Anomalisa, written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, at UCLA's Royce
Hall in Los Angeles.

She has been honored with career retrospectives at the American Cinematheque, the
Telluride Film Festival, and the American Museum of the Moving Image. In 2002, the
Film Society of Lincoln Center presented Ms. Leigh with its Young Friends of Film
Honor.